Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dogmatic to state that isolation is "sheer moonshine." No one knows. We do know, however that the United States was able to isolate herself during the last war for three years, three years of great prosperity for our country, and that even at the time of the sinking of the "Lusitania," there was no real economic need for entering the conflict. We know now that at all events, the costs of isolation, if there are any, are never greater than the cost of participating in a war on foreign soil, for foreign interests and foreign capital...
Prairie Houses. While Louis Sullivan was working on public buildings, what few commissions Adler & Sullivan were given for private houses fell to Frank Lloyd Wright to design. At 20 he married and borrowed $5,000 from Sullivan to build his own home in Oak Park. For the sheer pleasure of it as well as to pay the debts he easily contracted for his growing family, Wright took what jobs he could get designing private houses outside the office. This angered Sullivan and in 1894, after nearly six years with the firm, Wright threw down his pencil and walked...
...when wages fall and prices rise? Who elect our Congressmen, anyway? The more efficient our control of foreign commerce becomes, the greater the internal pressures which rise up behind those barriers to destroy them. The dream of isolation, upon which rests the arguments of keeping hands off, is sheer moonshine...
...acting of "Angel" is never brilliant, the story is improbable, and the conclusion not wholly convincing; but sheer technique has raised it above the common run. The photography, particularly in the close-ups of Miss Dietrich, the skillful contrast of the gowns she wears as Angel and Maria's tailored English costumes, the detail of the sets, the handling of suspense, the clever way in which the telephone is twice used to advance the plot, scraps of dialogue which show, a little satirically perhaps, the social structure of "this Sacred Plot," these and a score of other subtleties prove...
...have no interest in trust-busting for the sheer joy of it," remarked Robert Jackson, Assistant U. S. Attorney General in charge of trustbusting, in a published interview last week. One thing was sure: Lawyer Jackson last week had something less than sheer joy in his latest attempt at trustbusting. For nine months early this year Lawyer Jackson's department investigated the operations of the four big auto-financing companies owned by or connected with automobile manufacturers. Last September it began presenting its evidence to a special Federal grand jury in Milwaukee. Last week, just when it seemed certain...